goes

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of go.

   He goes for a long walk whenever the weather is clear.

   The road goes straight past the old mill and into town.

   Note

   The form that agrees with a single subject in the present: he goes, it goes, the road goes. The spelling adds -es, not a bare -s. Its subjects need not be people or vehicles. Moods and information go too, and so does someone who goes to a folder on a computer, or a mind that goes back through the historical record.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of go. In the sense of tries or turns, more common in British than American English.

   After several goes at fixing the engine, he finally got it running.

   The children took turns, and everyone got at least two goes.

   Note

   A plural that only the countable senses of the noun produce: turns in a game, attempts at a task, spells of activity, experiences. Several goes at fixing an engine means several tries. GO as the initialism for graphene oxide is uncountable and takes no plural. The spelling matches the present-tense verb, so he goes and two goes differ only in what surrounds them.

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